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This course introduces the accounting system to identify, record and communicate business transactions for an entity. It examines how these transactions affect decision making. The course looks at accounting rules and how each country has its own accounting rules and regulations. The course analyzes the new accounting rules determined by the International Accounting Standard Board (IASB). These rules are known as IFRS and are contrasted with the rules used by the major financial markets known as GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles). In this course, students learn to analyze transactions, apply accounting rules and prepare financial statements. Text: Weygandt, J., Kimel, P., and Kieso, D., FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING, IRFS EDITION. Assessment: participation (5%), homework (10%), two exams (50%), final exam (35%).

Software engineers encounter different programming languages throughout their career. While each new language brings with it new libraries and marketing terms, the underlying key concepts of these languages are typically selected from a relatively small pool of programming language concepts. This course gives students an overview of and familiarity with those common concepts to allow them to better understand and more quickly adapt to new languages. In addition, the course supports students who work on the design of (domain-specific) programming languages in getting a broader overview over their design choices.

The course uses an anthropological lens to examine how Indigenous Australians have long engaged with a diversity of non-Indigenous practices, ideas and values as they continue to articulate distinct Indigenous lives. It investigates ethnographically changing Indigenous life worlds since colonization with a focus on state policy and rights politics.

In this course, the three key statutory pillars of IP Law (Copyright, Trade Marks, Patents) are explored against the background of the rationale for such laws. Lectures explore policies and the common law on IP with a consideration of the actions for breach of confidence and passing off.

Religious belief represents a significant facet in the complexity of today's world. Communications and media experts in particular need to understand the philosophical, historical, sociological, communicative, and doctrinal aspects of major religious traditions in order to provide balanced and unbiased reports. This course analyzes religions in the context of their historical development and their symbiotic relationship with local cultures, examining cross-tradition similarities and the uniqueness of each of the religions. Special emphasis is placed on the attitudes of the various religious traditions toward politics and violence, and the role of communications in this process. Students discuss the particularities of religious and non-religious worldviews in Central Europe and in a larger European context.

This course introduces students to the problems of automatic control with practical illustrations drawn from various areas of electrical, mechanical, and process engineering.

What is modernity and what makes a novel modern? This course provides answers to this question through the study of novels from a variety of cultures and decades from the early twentieth to the early twenty-first centuries. Including works from Europe, Asia, and America, it considers not only the stories novels tell about modernity but also the formal innovations of structure, style, and voice which novelists have made in their attempts to respond to a world undergoing rapid social, technological and political change. Important foci and themes include the immigrant experience, loneliness and intimacy and America as icon and agent of modernity.

This course examines the impacts of globalization in both the developed and developing world and its relation to geopolitics. Particular emphasis is placed on the theories of geopolitics and globalization. Topics include the implications of the rise of China and its international relations in the developing world, “shadow globalization” – human, arms, and drug trafficking and resistance to these processes through social movements, among others. The course is taught through a combination of lectures and tutorial discussions.